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- Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
- The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the…
- At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the…
- Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.
- We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
- Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray…
- One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in…
- Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
- Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of…
- A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case…
- The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
- Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of…
- Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow…
- As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a…
- He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
- Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
- To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to…
- Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle